{{Quotebox|“They were walking out to a press conference. I said, ‘Nah, I’m not going to — or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars.’ They said: ‘You have no authority. You’re not the president. I said, 'Call him,’ ” Biden says. “I said, ‘I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars.’ I said: ‘You’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours.’ I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a b----, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4818429/biden-ukraine-cfr</ref><ref>https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden</ref>}}
{{Quotebox|“They were walking out to a press conference. I said, ‘Nah, I’m not going to — or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars.’ They said: ‘You have no authority. You’re not the president. I said, 'Call him,’ ” Biden says. “I said, ‘I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars.’ I said: ‘You’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours.’ I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a b----, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4818429/biden-ukraine-cfr</ref><ref>https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden</ref>}}
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*'''10 December.''' ''The New York Times'' reports ''Ukraine Court Rules Manafort Disclosure Caused 'Meddling' in U.S. Election''. <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/world/europe/ukraine-paul-manafort.html</ref> National Anti-Corruption Bureau Director Artem Sytnyk and legislator Serhiy Leshchenko broke the law by revealing Manafort's name. The court said that the disclosure
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{{quotebox|“led to interference in the electoral processes of the United States in 2016 and harmed the interests of Ukraine as a state.” <ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ties-to-ukrainian-national-a-unifying-theme-in-early-attacks-on-trump_2872609.html</ref>}}
*'''14 December.''' ''[[The Nation]]'' reports,
*'''14 December.''' ''[[The Nation]]'' reports,
{{quotebox|"When it comes to his work in Ukraine, '''Manafort''', as former Fusion GPS researcher Graham Stack writes, '''was convicted for ‘doing the opposite of colluding with Russia.’''' In Ukraine, Manafort pushed a pro-[[Western]] agenda … Internal '''documents released by Mueller make clear that Manafort tried to steer his client''', then – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, to align with the [[European Union]] and '''away from Russia''', or, in Manafort’s own words, promote ‘the key geopolitical messaging of how “Europe and the U.S. should not risk losing Ukraine to Russia.”‘<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/russiagate-russophobia-mueller-trump/</ref>}}
{{quotebox|"When it comes to his work in Ukraine, '''Manafort''', as former Fusion GPS researcher Graham Stack writes, '''was convicted for ‘doing the opposite of colluding with Russia.’''' In Ukraine, Manafort pushed a pro-[[Western]] agenda … Internal '''documents released by Mueller make clear that Manafort tried to steer his client''', then – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, to align with the [[European Union]] and '''away from Russia''', or, in Manafort’s own words, promote ‘the key geopolitical messaging of how “Europe and the U.S. should not risk losing Ukraine to Russia.”‘<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/russiagate-russophobia-mueller-trump/</ref>}}